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On Thanksgiving night we ventured out in dense fog to see "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Visibility was near-zero, but we'd purchased th...

I know, I know, bloggers are supposed to keep their posts short—somewhere between a tweet and the length of one computer screen. But some we...

Yesterday, I promised to give my current playlist of melancholy songs, but perhaps I promised too much. My playlist is ever-evolving, my pur...

The antidote to depressing music? Anything by P.G. Wodehouse. I most enjoy hearing or seeing Wodehouse performed instead of just reading hi...

In my last post I asked the question: "What is the most depressing song ever?" The post title itself reveals my problem with wr...

I am a big fan of depressing music, especially on long winter nights. While other people might crave Christmas music come early December, I ...

Recently, my daughter asked where the Washington Post Style section was. "It's right there," I said, referring to the thin pi...

I haven't updated this blog in nearly two weeks, mostly because I was on vacation and, prior to that, hurriedly getting ready for Christ...

OK, so I'm a little behind, and maybe everyone already knows about this, but I think it's cool—it's a Wordle* representation of ...

Stephanie Meyer (who wrote the Twilight series) says the story came to her in a vivid dream: “In my dream, two people were having an intense...